Nursing student Tanaya Copeland, 18, was found stabbed to death on May 30. View Full Caption

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BROOKLYN — Justice delayed is justice denied, according to advocates urging police to move ahead with charges in the death of Tanaya Copeland, an 18-year-old nursing student who was fatally stabbed in May.

Police have said publicly that they believe Copeland, whose body was found with multiple stab wounds on an East New York Street late on May 30, may have been the first victim of a violent spree by ex-con Daniel St. Hubert. He was arrested after police say he stabbed 6-year-old Prince Joshua "P.J." Avitto to death and critically injured 7-year-old Mikayla Capers, just days after Copeland's death and not far from where her body was found.

But although Hubert, who has a history of mental problems, has been indicted on murder charges in Avitto's death, police and prosecutors have yet to charge him — or anyone — in Copeland's death.

Now Copeland's friends and family are circulating a petition in hopes of pressuring the NYPD to do more to solve her murder.

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